YMMV / Pale Lights

• Complete Monster: Augusto Cerdan, initially just another spoiled infanzon, turns himself into something much darker. Already widely hated for running House Cerdan's properties in Feria District, where he forces those unable to pay the exorbitant rent prices into bed with him, Augusto quickly becomes one of the most despised participants of the Watch's trials when he sacrifices his own servant to escape ravenous spirits, and tries to murder Angharad—along with his retainer, his brother, the woman he seeks to marry, and four others by proxy—when she swears to slay him for the treacherous act. Upon being left for dead for his backstabbing cowardice, Augusto makes a contract with the malevolent Red Maw and gains the power to heal his wounds by regularly draining the flesh of others, setting out to kill the rest of the trial-takers and destroy Cantica village in an alliance with the Red Maw's cultists. An honorless cur to the end, Augusto intends to keep his monstrous contract a secret by leading the cultists to slaughter every last member of the Watch in Three Pines, before sailing back to Sacromonte so he can continue feasting on flesh and take revenge on Ferranda Villazur's family for her vexing him.
• Memetic Mutation:
  • Mirror lemur^note The Gloam of Vesper is inhabited by many spirits, with the many hostile ones called lemures—one type in particular is noted to shapeshift into a mirror image of its prey. Unfortunately, a typo when talking about the shapeshifters accidentally confused readers into thinking it was some mutant version of the real-world mammal, a joke the fandom quickly latched on to.
  • Scorchio 2.0^note APGtE featured a new character called the Scorched Apostate in the beginning of Book 6, who looked set to be a major character and pseudo-mentee of Catherine's before suddenly dying a few chapters later. When Marzela, a troubled young girl with a tragic backstory, is introduced as one of the Watch's trial participants, many accurately guessed she would play a similar Red Herring role.

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